The infant mortality rate at Cherbourg Aboriginal Community: An update
- 1 February 1992
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
- Vol. 28 (1) , 64-66
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1754.1992.tb02620.x
Abstract
The infant mortality rate (IMR) at Cherbourg Aboriginal Community in south‐eastern Queensland remained high from 1906 to about 1955–60, but since then has dropped from over 200/1000 live births in 1956–60 to 16/1000 live births in 1986–90, compared with the 1987 rate for Queensland (9.2/1000) and Australia (8.6/1000). The rapid improvement in the IMR was associated with the installation of a piped and chlorinated water supply, sewerage and an intensive campaign to eradicate intestinal worms. There has also been a change in community attitudes towards routine health practices and it is likely that this has been a major factor in the changes.Keywords
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